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Joe La Barbera – World Travelers (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:19 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sam First Records
This nine song romp held an upbeat tempo throughout, with glorious changes; most were subtle and flowed seamlessly. Others were sizable bursts or drop downs, as they were intended to be. The quintet beautifully honored each song. They played in service to the music, with no showboating or competitive nonsense. They all have extensive jazz vocabularies, which led to rich conversation and improvisation. Somehow Sheppard continues to fly under the radar, but no doubt he is one of the world’s finest jazz saxophonists. Playing both tenor and soprano on this night, he once again shone in solos and made everyone else sound better. Not everyone can do that, but Sheppard always does. Jenkins is cut from the same cloth. Their exchanges were exquisite, complementing each other as opposed to pushing each other. Cunliffe manages to have quiet but strong impressionism. He plays in a trio quite often so, naturally, and most wonderfully, he brings that mindset. This brings two important elements to the ensemble. When the horn section steps out and they play in trio, Cunliffe is, obviously, way into his element. When in quintet, and it is Cunliffe’s moment to shine, he pounces on it like a hungry bear. The best of both worlds.
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Harry James – Off The Record (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:13 minutes | 710 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Potions Music NYC
Chicago drummer and pianist Harry James Brenner Jr, returns to the Tascam 4 Track with an aggressive third LP, “Off The Record”. Staying in his intimate and sentimental bag, Off The Record continues to provide warm and welcoming environments that perpetuate ghostly memories and familiar sounding strangers gliding through time and space.
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De Profundis & Robert Hollingworth – Vivanco: Missa Assumpsit Jesus & Motets (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:47 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion
The opulent male voices of De Profundis bring the complex—and gorgeous—sonic tapestries woven by Sebastián de Vivanco in Renaissance Spain thrillingly to life.
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De Profundis & Eamonn Dougan – Esquivel: Missa Hortus conclusus, Magnificat & Motets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:29 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion
The lush foliage of Juan Esquivel’s ‘enclosed garden’ is expertly tended by De Profundis, who reveal the neglected output of another master of the Spanish Renaissance.
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Daniel Sæther, Ensemble C4 – Händel: Neun Deutsche Arien (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:57 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
Ensemble C4 is based in Oslo and works primarily in Norway. With its association with several freelance musicians, the ensemble remains flexible in both its musical expression and size. Since 2015, it has presented several new concert programmes per year and has consequently built up a large repertoire of music taken from the period from approximately 1575 till 1800.
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Claudine Carlson – Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 & Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (Version for Voice & Orchestra) (1979/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:13 minutes | 2,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vox
The new medium of film with sound was developing at around the time Prokofiev returned to the Soviet Union, where in 1933 he composed the music for his first film, Lieutenant Kijé. Prokofiev’s remarkable perception of the medium’s requirements was enhanced by his collaboration with Sergey Eisenstein on Alexander Nevsky. The music was of epic proportions and the resultant cantata remains one of Prokofiev’s most brilliantly conceived and popular works. Leonard Slatkin’s classic VOX recordings of these works have been praised for their “powerful and compelling performances”. (ClassicsToday.com) The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings.
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Butthole Surfers – Live PCPPEP (2024 Remaster) (1984/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 21:25 minutes | 266 MB | Genre: Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Matador
Seven songs performed live and naked by these slightly off-kilter Texan envelope pushers. Remember: before Pepper, there was an entire decade that the band probably doesn’t even recall, but damn, was it good for the rest of us! Recorded at the Meridean in San Antonio, TX in 1984. Now remastered under supervision from the group.
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Ariel – Ariel (1980/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:56 minutes | 819 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ariel
A Jazz Dance Favourite that Jazz Room Records Head Honcho Paul Murphy was hepped to by Brownswood and 6Music Jazz Supremo Gilles Peterson at the 20th Birthday Bash of London’s most Underground of Clubs: Shiftless Shuffle.
Murphy: “I’d quite forgotten all about it, but when I saw the reaction on the dancefloor it was “Mental Note Time, get on the case for a full investigation and let’s see some Vinyl re-issue action!”
The head of the original Danish Label, Pick Up Records, later reminded Paul that he was selling the originals in his original Jazz Record Shop “Fusion Records” when the original was released and that he, Peter Littauer, had actually delivered them personally on a trip to London. Synergy in action!
The music is a mixture of 100mph Latin Jazz (Girl With Three Faces/747 To Rio/From Dusk Towards Dawn) and Funky Rhodes driven workouts (Travelling/Circles In The Air), plus the vocal pyrotechnics of Hawaiian singer Lei Aloha Moe who guested on two of the tracks.
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Achim Reichel – Schön war es doch – Das Abschiedskonzert (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:42:22 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management GmbH
Am 28. Januar 2024 feiert Achim Reichel seinen 80. Geburtstag und blickt dabei auf eine beispiellose Karriere zurück, die in Deutschland ihresgleichen sucht.
Zu diesem Anlass lässt er es sich nicht nehmen, das beeindruckende Live-Album »Schön war es doch – Das Abschiedskonzert« zu veröffentlichen.
Das Album präsentiert eine achtköpfige Besetzung mit neuen Arrangements und einem Repertoire, das von Bläsern geprägt ist. Dabei dürfen Titel wie »Der Spieler«, »Regenballade«, »Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins« oder »Aloha Heja He« natürlich nicht fehlen.
Als besonderes Highlight enthält die neue Veröffentlichung den Bonustitel »Aber schön war es doch«, in dem Achim Reichel mit seiner unverkennbaren Art dem Original von Hildegard Knef eine ganz eigene Note verleiht und neue Akzente setzt.
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William Youn – Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:26:50 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
William Youn’s first orchestral album for Sony Classical in cooperation with Deutschlandradio Berlin is dedicated entirely to the exuberant flair of fin-de-siècle Paris with rare repertoire by Reynaldo Hahn, Nadia Boulanger and Gabriel Fauré – a musical excursion into the salons of the Belle Époque full of dazzling rediscoveries.
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Usha Kapoor, Edward Leung – Beach & Corigliano: Violin Sonatas (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:49 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics
Winners of the First Prize at the inaugural Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Competition, violinist Usha Kapoor and pianist Edward Leung present an album of violin sonatas by American composers Amy Beach and John Corigliano. The album features Beach’s large-scale chamber work of 1896, the Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 34, and her earlier Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 from 1893, together with Corigliano’s Sonata for Violin and Piano. Completed in 1963, this work was originally called ‘Duo’ and is very much intended for two equal musical partners.
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Trío Pangea – Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:54 minutes | 962 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Trio Pangea explores the rich variety to be found in a century of Portuguese chamber music history. Armando José Fernandes was one of the most prominent Portuguese composers of the mid-20th century, and with its contrasting musical playfulness and serene solemnity his Sonata a Tre reveals the composer’s strong attachment to neo-Classicism. Nuno Côrte-Real’s Sonata Holandesa is representative of a shifting compositional style that ranges in expression from violent to dreamlike. One of Liszt’s last pupils, José Viana da Mota has been described as ‘utterly Brahmsian’ in the noble opening to his Piano Trio, elements of which also reflect the influence of his teacher.
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